Defense acquisitions : observations on the Department of Defense service contract inventories for fiscal year 2008 / [John P. Hutton, William Solis].

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Hutton, John P.

Contributor:

Solis, William M.

United States. Government Accountability Office

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Department of Defense--Rules and practice.

United States.

United States. Department of Defense.

Defense contracts--United States--Management--Evaluation.

Defense contracts.

Defense contracts--Management--Evaluation.

Genre:

Rules and practice.

Rules.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (50 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Observations on the Department of Defense service contract inventories for fiscal year 2008

Service contract inventories

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, [2010]

Summary:

The Department of Defense (DOD) is the federal government's largest purchaser of contractor-provided services and relies on contractors to support its varied missions. DOD's contractors provide a range of services, such as consulting and administrative support, information technology services, and weapon system and base operations support. However, DOD contract management has been on our high-risk list since 1992, and our recent work continues to identify weaknesses in DOD's management and oversight of services contracts. In particular, we have reported on the need for reliable data on how service acquisition dollars are spent to make informed contract management decisions and achieve positive acquisition outcomes. Congress has enacted legislation in recent years to increase the availability of information on services acquisitions to improve DOD's ability to manage these purchases. As part of those efforts, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 [required] DOD to submit an annual inventory of the activities performed pursuant to contracts for services for or on behalf of DOD during the preceding fiscal year. These inventories are to contain a number of different elements for the service contracts listed, including information on the functions and missions performed by the contractor, the funding source for the contract, and the number of contractor full-time equivalents (FTE) working under the contract. Once compiled, the inventories are to be reviewed by senior DOD officials and used to inform a variety of acquisition and workforce decisions. House Armed Services Committee Report 111-116 directed us to assess the methodology used by the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force to compile the service contract inventories for fiscal year 2008. In December 2009, we provided a briefing on the results of our assessment of the methodologies used. This letter summarizes that briefing.

Notes:

Title from p.1 screen (GAO, viewed February 2, 2010).

"January 29, 2010."

Includes bibliographical references.

"GAO-10-350R."

OCLC:

503171556